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XI. Observations on a Coin of Robert Earl of Gloucester, addressed to the President. By Mr. Colebrook

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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As the tables of English silver coins published by the Society contain little more than a bare description of the several pieces, with their legends and devices on the reverse; and as there are some in the first and second plate which are truly historical; an elucidation of these from the historians who wrote of those times, and lived in or near them (though thought too long for a note to have been inserted at the bottom of the page), may be matter of entertainment to those gentlemen who collect our English coins. I hope the following particulars will in some measure point out the occasions on which these coins were struck.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1777

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page 135 note 1 Soon.

page 136 note 2 very often

page 136 note 3 civil

page 136 note 4 self

page 136 note 5 certainly

page 136 note 6 not

page 136 note 7 kindred

page 136 note 8 by which he may be known

page 136 note 9 will take care to give him

page 136 note 10 have

page 136 note 11 no name to be called by

page 136 note 12 I am willing

page 136 note 13 them

page 137 note [a] N° 21, Plate I. of the Society's tables, is a coin of Henry bishop of Winchester, Stephen's brother; on which he is represented with the pastoral staff in his hand, the legend Henricus Epc.; on the reverse are the arms of Winchester, with Stephanus Rex.

page 138 note [b] Scriptores post Bedam, Henry of Huntington, p. 227.

page 139 note [c] Society of Antiquaries Coins, pl. ii. N° 7. a young face, with long hair, over the head three fleurs-de-lis instead of a crown, a scepter in his right hand, and three annulets engrailed before the face. It is most likely that Henry brought a minter with him who struck this coin, it being more elegant and in a better taste than any of the preceding or subsequent reigns.

page 139 note [d] Hoveden, p. 281.

page 139 note [e] Speed, p. 481. Math. Paris, p. 72. Polydore Vergil p. 200.

page 139 note [f] See this treaty in Hollinshed, vol. iii. p. 61.